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. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .
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diseased
mind
perverse
perverted
reverse
seclusion
solitary
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Francis Crozier believes in nothing. . It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it?
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belief
brutish
francis-rawdon-moira-crozier
hidden-mysteries
hobbe-s-leviathan
life
miseries
nasty
poor
short
solitary
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Dan Simmons |
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The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.
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boredom
cyber
cyberworld
david-foster-wallace
depression
dissatisfaction
distractions
emptiness
empty
endlessness
facebook
facebook-addiction
facebook-quotes
filler
first-world-problems
jonathan-franzen
loneliness
lonely
problems
robinson-crusoe
satisfaction
solitary
solitude
stimulation
suicide
virtual
void
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Jonathan Franzen |
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At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.
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loneliness
lonely
savagery
solitary
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |